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CANADA'S GUN CONTROL LAW
Keeping Canada safer
GUN CONTROL WORKS
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December 8 , 2009- Police Officers, Suicide Prevention Experts and Victims Maintain Myths, Misinformation and Money are Fuelling Efforts to Dismantle Firearms Registry...download pdf
December 6 , 2009- Twenty Years after the Montreal Massacre: Gun Control is in Jeopardy ...download pdfDecember 6 , 2009- Gun Control News: Twenty years after the Montreal Massacre ...download pdf
Mother of Montreal Massacre Victim Says "Help me keep our daughters’ legacy alive." ...Click here
Polytechnique Massacre Survivors Speak on Gun Control, Say "Help us ensure our classmates did not die in vain" ...Click here
December 5- Press Release Antennes de paix Montreal Guns and Violence Against Women: A Dangerous Connection ...Click here
November 16, 2009- Canadian Labour Congress Postcard Campaign Keep the Gun Registry: Disarm Domestic Violence ...Click here to send the postcard to the Prime Minister(you will leave the Coalition website)
November 16, 2009- Twenty days before the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) is denouncing the government's attempt to abolish the national gun registry. . ...Click here to view the CAW press release (you will leave the Coalition website)November 9, 2009- Press Release -Canadian Emergency Physicians opposed to repealing the Long-Gun Registry ...Click here to view the release (you will leave the Coalition website)
November 9, 2009- Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres and Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County write Bill C 391 will prolong random acts of violence against women....Click here
November 4, 2009 Press Release- MPs Playing Dangerous Politics with Women's Lives says YWCA Canada: Calls for Honouring the Montreal Massacre and Preserving the Gun Registry...Click here to view the release
November 4, 2009-Press Release -Leading public safety groups appalled that Opposition parties will help pass Tory Bill dismantling the registration of rifles and shotguns ...download pdf
On November 4, 2009 Jack Layton and Michael Ignatieff are Poised to Help the Conservatives Dismantle the Gun Registry and Turn back the Clock on Gun Control ...download pdfNovember 3, 2009 - Press Release: Victim’s Mother Pleads to Elected Officials Do Not Vote in Favour of Bill C-391 on November 4 ...download pdf
November 1, 2009- Press Release: Canadian Association of Police Boards asks all members of parliament to reconsider dismantling of the gun control system when private member's Bill C-391 receives second reading on November 4, 2009. ... Click here to read the press release (you will leave the Coalition website)
October 28 2009- Updated Homicide Data are here
October 2009 New Statistics Canada Report- Spousal homicides with firearms have declined by two thirds since 1995 while homicide without gunshave remained the same. Click here (You will leave the Coalition website
October 20 2009- Updated Firearm Death Graphs are here
September 28 2009- Press Release The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW); dismantling gun registry a threat to public safety...download pdf
September 23 2009- National Council of Women of Canada Call to Defeat Bill C-391... Click here to view the letter (you will leave the Coalition website)
Press Releases archives are available here
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Prorogation won't halt bill to scrap gun registry, or much else Canadian Press, January 5, 2010 ...download pdf
Attorney General of Ontario writes: "Canada's long-gun registry protects public safety, don't pass private member's bill" Hill Times, December 14, 2009 ...download pdf
Gun control advocates fight 'misinformation' CBC, December 8, 2009 ...download pdf
Montreal Massacre reminds us why we need gun registry CBC, November 27, 2009 ...download pdf
Police need gun registry. It keeps officials, victims safer, Quebec minister for the status of women says.
Montreal Gazette, November 23, 2009 ...download pdf
Does regulating guns result in fewer murders?
Macleans, November 17, 2009 ...download pdf
Saskatoon's Star Phoenix First Nation perspective columnist writes " Dangerous mistake to scrap long gun registry"
Star Phoenix, November 13, 2009 ...download pdf
MPs disregard safety of rural Canadians
Ottawa Citizen, November 9, 2009 ...download pdf
Scrapping long-gun registry is pandering to vocal minority
Vancouver Sun, November 9, 2009 ...download pdf
Gun registry worth fixing
Hamilton Spectator, November 9, 2009 ...download pdf
Distorting the gun facts
Toronto Star, November 8, 2009 ...download pdf
Firearms database popular with police Tories release report on registry use two days after key Commons vote
Toronto Star, November 7, 2009 ...download pdf
An appalling betrayal
Ottawa Citizen, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf
MPs are way off target The Long-gun registration has made Canada a safer place in the past 14 years - Parliament is wrong to kill it
Montreal Gazette, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf
Gun registry an asset: (Halifax) Cop. Long-barrelled firearms just as problematic as handguns, officer says.
Metro News Halifax, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf
(North Bay) City police oppose dismantling gun registry
North Bay Nugget, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf
Rural overrepresentation defeats the people's will
Globe and Mail, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf
Canada's competing views on guns
Globe and Mail, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf
(Kelowna) Top Cop Says Gun Registry Should Stay
Castanet, November 5, 2009 ...download pdf
Police would lose 'investigative tool' if gun registry scrapped
Winsor Star, November 5, 2009 ...download pdf
Gun registry vital
Sault Star, November 5, 2009 ...download pdf
Members of Quebec national assembly passed a unanimous motion urging the federal government to preserve the national firearms registry
CBC, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf
Gun registry might have saved my daughter
Calgary Herald, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf
Head of Montreal Police Brotherhood says "removing long guns from the registry would erase 95 per cent of Quebec's registered firearms"
Canadian Press, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf
Kenora Sexual Assault Centre joins call to defeat bill to amend Firearms Act
Kenora Daily Miner and News, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf
Gun Victim's Mom Says: "Gun registry keeps guns out of hands of dangerous people"
Sault Star, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf
International Action Network on Small Arms says: "Canada's legislation on firearms has been a model for other countries (...) All this will be undermined if the registry is abolished."
Toronto Star, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf
Toronto Police Chief: "We lose the gun registry at our peril"
Globe and Mail web exclusive, November 3, 2009 ...download pdf
Reject gun-registry bill, MPs urged
20th anniversary of Poly near; 'Firearms Act is a monument erected in memory of the victims of the massacre'
Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2009 ...download pdf
Tories target rural ridings on gun bill, trying to build majority
Hill Times, November 2, 2009 ...download pdf
Tories move closer to killing gun registry
Toronto Star, November 2, 2009 ...download pdf
Firearms registry defended following gun seizure
CTV, October 28, 2009 ...download pdf
Timmins Police says service accesses information from the gun registry on a regular basis
North Bay Nugget, October 28, 2009 ...download pdf
News archives are available here
Since 1989, the Coalition for Gun Control has worked to reduce firearm death, injury and crime in Canada. Its 350 supporting organizations include the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, women’s groups, victims groups, and others.